Reading higher in the thread, some Elixir folks are saying that the techempower benchmarks used the wrong settings (debug mode, etc) for their Elixir benchmark.

Though that doesn’t change the crux of my question (rather it reinforces it): why invoke that benchmark in this context at all?

The fastest Elixir framework on the list, phoenix, is about as fast as uvicorn. (Both around 10 times slower than dragon.)

I was mostly responding directly to these 2 statements from my parent comment:

> They did savings by re-implementing their services and attribute those savings to the new tool / programming language.

> I wonder what the saving would look like if they chose another tool for the second / optimized system. I doubt it would differ much if they went with Go, Java or stayed with Python.

Which I didn't entirely agree with.